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Old 15-Feb-2008, 08:56
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Default Re: separate the weak from the chafed
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Originally Posted by Tdol View Post
...Or maybe it was a deliberate pun. Some newspapers, for example, are very fond of this sort of word-play. For example, the idiom 'no stone unturned' has appeared in various contexts as 'no stern untoned' (a reference to health farms/massage) and 'no turn unstoned' (a book about hostile theatre reviews).

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